Israel deliberately kills Al Jazeera crew, bombards Gaza City

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Two rescue workers were wounded in separate Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. The medics worked with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

Noah Shaghnoubi was injured after trying to rescue injured people inside a house targeted by the Israeli army in the south of Gaza City, Al Jazeera reports.

Diaa Mohammed Suleiman al-Bayouk, a paramedic with the PRCS, was wounded as he was responding to a distress call in a house southwest of the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, Wafa reports.

Sunday evening in Gaza City brought yet another dark chapter in the war on Palestinian journalism as an Israeli airstrike struck a tent for reporters outside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, killing six journalists; five of them were Al Jazeera journalists, including prominent correspondent Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqea.

The Israeli army openly admitted it had targeted al-Sharif, labelling him a Hamas operative, a claim long used by Israel to justify killing reporters.

Al Jazeera called it a "premeditated assassination" and "a blatant attack on press freedom," accusing Israel of trying to silence voices before pressing ahead with its plan to seize Gaza City.

Israel's war on Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in modern history. According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, before October 2023, there were more than 1,500 journalists in Gaza. Since then, at least 238 have been killed by Israel, more than 500 were wounded, and virtually all have displaced after losing their homes to Israeli attacks.

Speaking to The New Arab, Palestinian journalists said that the Israeli army insisting on killing more and more journalists simply to wipe out the truth in Gaza and hide its crimes.

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Gaza's hunger and malnutrition are at their highest levels ever recorded, the UN World Food Programme said, as over one third of the population have not had food for days and 500,000 people are on the brink of famine.

Israeli forces on Sunday killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside four others working for the Qatari network in Gaza City, in another deliberate attack on the press.

Over the past two years, al-Sharif rose to prominence for his extensive and tireless reporting from the frontlines amid the deadly war in Gaza. He was frequently seen wearing a press vest and helmet with a microphone in hand, delivering news from the war-hit enclave’s north.

Dubbed one of the "voices" of Gaza, al-Sharif famously refused to evacuate from the heavily shelled northern Gaza despite Israeli evacuation orders, and continued to deliver news despite threats to life, dire conditions and lack of safety.

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Out of the minimum requirement of 600 aid trucks a day, Israel only allowed 124 aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Gaza Government Media Office revealed.

The office added that only 1,334 aid trucks out of the alleged amount of 9,000 were allowed into the enclave over 15 days.

A five-year-old child, Mohammed Zakaria Khader, has died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to prevent food aid from entering the enclave, Wafa reports.

The European Union condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.

"The EU condemns the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an (Israeli military) airstrike outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, including the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif," she said after EU foreign ministers discussed the war in virtual talks.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday the war in Gaza was growing more dangerous by the hour and added that war was not the solution.

"If a military solution was possible, the war would already be over," she said in a statement on social media platform X.

She added that the EU priorities remain humanitarian support, including access for NGOs, with an immediate ceasefire and release of remaining captives.

At least 13 Palestinians were killed on Monday after Israeli strikes targeted several areas across the Gaza Strip, Wafa reports.

Eight civilians were killed while seeking aid in the Al-Sudaniya area northwest of the Strip, while five more were killed after an Israeli strike targeted a group of people in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 61,499 Palestinians since October 2023, while over 153,575 have been wounded, medical sources told Wafa.

The sources added that 69 bodies were taken to the hospital, including one retrieved from the rubble.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed "deep concern" Monday over Israel's plan to occupy Gaza City, in a telephone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Meloni shared "her deep concern over recent Israeli decisions, which appear to be leading to further military escalation", and slammed the humanitarian situation in the Strip as "unjustifiable and unacceptable", her office said.

In the call Meloni "reiterated the need to immediately end hostilities in order to continue providing humanitarian assistance to a desperate civilian population".

She also agreed with Abbas that "Hamas must release all hostages and accept that it will have no future in governing the Strip", her office said.

At least 2,500 Palestinians have been killed as Israel continues to prevent rescue missions, Gaza's Civil Defence agency reports.

The agency added that the Israeli military has only responded to 10 percent of the requests sent from humanitarian groups.

"We affirm that this Israeli refusal to coordinate field requests for humanitarian response has caused the martyrdom of more than 2,500 citizens who were injured in the targeted areas," the Civil Defence said in a statement.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza in an airstrike, his spokesperson said on Monday.

"The secretary-general calls for an independent and impartial investigation into these latest killings," said U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

"At least 242 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Journalists and media workers must be respected, they must be protected and they must be allowed to carry out their work freely, free from fear and free from harassment."

Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Monday it is terminating all contracts with asset managers handling its Israeli investments and has divested parts of its portfolio in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

The announcement follows an urgent review launched last week following media reports that the fund had built a stake in an Israeli jet engine group that provides services to Israel's armed forces, including the maintenance of fighter jets.

The fund, an arm of Norway's central bank, which held stakes in 61 Israeli companies as of June 30, in recent days divested stakes in 11 of these, it said in a statement.

"We have now completely sold out of these positions," the fund said, adding that it continued to review Israeli companies for potential divestments.

Norway's parliament in June rejected a proposal for the fund to divest from all companies with activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. 

The Buraq Wall, also known as the Western Wall to Jews,  in Jerusalem on Monday was vandalised with graffiti condemning Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, authorities said, triggering widespread condemnation from religious leaders and politicians.

"There is a holocaust in Gaza" was graffitied in Hebrew on the southern portion of the wall, a holy site where Jews are allowed to pray, located in the Israeli-annexed Old City of Jerusalem.

A similar message was also scrawled on the wall of the Great Synagogue, elsewhere in the city.

Israeli police said a 27-year-old suspect had been arrested and would appear in court later on Monday, having requested an extension for his detention, without disclosing his identity.

The incident sparked immediate outrage in Israel, with the Wall's Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch calling it a "desecration".

"A holy place is not a place to express protests... The police must investigate this action, track down the criminals responsible for the desecration and bring them to justice," Rabinovitch said in a statement.

The office in charge of the site's management said that the graffiti was scrubbed off in the morning.

Media advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday slammed an Israeli strike that killed several Al Jazeera staff in Gaza overnight, saying journalists should never be targeted in war.

"Journalists are civilians. They must never be targeted in war. And to do so is a war crime," Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), told AFP.

The CPJ in July called for the protection of Anas al-Sharif, one of the journalists killed in the Israeli strike, after an Israeli military spokesman claimed he was a militant, accusing Israel of a "pattern" of labelling journalists militants "without providing credible evidence".

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is "gravely concerned" about the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza, his spokesperson said on Monday, after five reporters were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Israel's military confirmed it targeted and killed the prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif.

"We are gravely concerned by the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza," Starmer's spokesperson told reporters.

"Reporters covering conflicts are afforded protection under international humanitarian law, and journalists must be able to report independently, without fear, and Israel must ensure journalists can carry out their work safely."

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday slammed Israel's plans to step up its military operation in Gaza as a disaster waiting to happen and proposed an international coalition under a United Nations mandate to stabilise Gaza.

Last week, Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to occupy Gaza City, in a move that expanded its military operations in the shattered Palestinian territory and drew strong criticism at home and abroad.

"The Israeli cabinet's announcement of an expansion of its operations in Gaza City and the Mawasi camps and for a re-occupation heralds a disaster of unprecedented gravity waiting to happen and of a move towards a never-ending war," said Macron, in remarks sent by his office to reporters.

"The Israeli hostages and the people of Gaza will continue to be the primary victims of this strategy," added Macron. 

The UN human rights agency on Monday condemned Israel's targeted killing of six journalists in Gaza as a "grave breach of international humanitarian law".

The office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on X that the Israeli military had targeted a tent housing five staff from Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera.

A freelance journalist was also killed in Sunday's strike, which Israel has acknowledged was a planned operation.

"Israel must respect and protect all civilians, including journalists," Turk's office added, noting that at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas attacks on Israel set off war in the Palestinian territory in October 2023.

"We call for immediate, safe and unhindered access to Gaza for all journalists," it said.

Qatar's Prime Minister lambasted Israel on Monday for killing journalists working for its Al Jazeera network in the besieged Gaza Strip, describing the deaths as "crimes beyond imagination".

"The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveals how these crimes are beyond imagination... May God have mercy on journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, and their colleagues," Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in a post on X.

Palestinians held a funeral for journalist Anas al-Sharif after he was killed by Israel in Gaza City on Sunday evening. 

Dozens of people carried his body through the streets of Gaza before burying him. 

From a heavy farewell where the air chokes with tears, Gaza, under bombardment, set out to bid farewell to her journalist sons: Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqah, Ibrahim Zaher, Mo’men Ailwah, Mohammed Noufal, and Mohammed Al-Khaldi.
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Reporters Without Borders on Monday condemned the "acknowledged murder by the Israeli army" of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif in Gaza, who the armed forces admitted they had targeted.

The press freedom campaign group told AFP it "strongly and angrily condemns the acknowledged murder by the Israeli army" of al-Sharif and other journalists.

Italy's defence minister said in an interview published Monday that Israel's government had "lost its reason and humanity" over Gaza and signalled an openness to potential sanctions.

"What is happening is unacceptable. We are not facing a military operation with collateral damage, but the pure denial of the law and the founding values of our civilisation," Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told La Stampa daily.

"We are committed to humanitarian aid, but we must now find a way to force Netanyahu to think clearly, beyond condemnation."

Asked about possible international sanctions against Israel, Crosetto said that "the occupation of Gaza and some serious acts in the West Bank mark a qualitative leap, in the face of which decisions must be made that force Netanyahu to think".

"And it wouldn't be a move against Israel, but a way to save that people from a government which has lost reason and humanity.

Hamas lambasted the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, saying the Israeli military carried out "a barbaric crime that surpasses all limits of fascism and criminality". 

New Zealand is considering recognition of a Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's cabinet would make a formal decision in September and present the government's approach at the U.N. Leaders' Week, he said.

Several countries including Australia, Britain and Canada have announced in recent weeks that they will recognise a Palestinian state at September's U.N. General Assembly.

Al Jazeera said two of its correspondents, including a prominent on-air talent, and three cameramen were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City on Sunday.

The Israeli military admitted in a statement to targeting Anas al-Sharif.

The attack was the latest to see journalists targeted in the 22-month war in Gaza, with around 200 media workers killed over the course of the war, according to media watchdogs.

"Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside three colleagues in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack, the director of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City has said," the Qatar-based broadcaster said.

"Al-Sharif, 28, was killed on Sunday after a tent for journalists outside the main gate of the hospital was hit. The well-known Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent reportedly reported extensively from northern Gaza."

The channel said that five of its staff members were killed during the strike on a tent in Gaza City, listing the others as Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufa,l and Moamen Aliwa.

According to local journalists, Noufal was a driver for the team who also assisted in filming.